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Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Introduce or Change Reorg for managing commits when generating Identity column values during the Reorg

When an identity column is added to an already existing and populated table, the table is put into a Reorg Pending status and thus unavailable to the applications. When the Reorg is run to resolve the status it generates the identity column values...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

format ([$END_USER$]) to be available for Workflow Operations

It would be useful to have < format ([$END_USER$]) > be available in a workflow operation. Currently it is only available when using a calculation.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Future consideration

Enable DATABASE_MEMORY change on WRITE SUSPEND database

We are using db2relocatedb to deploy test, dev, preprod environments from production images (disc snapshots). This happens multiple times a week (talking about multiple hundred databases). Most databases have DATABASE_MEMORY set to AUTOMATIC. Relo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Watson Translate Support for Rich Text Fields

Currently Watson does not support rich text fields. This is a substantial amount of text fields and would include most data stream integrations provided OOTB for OP. Not being able to auto-translate is extremely confusing for the users and is inco...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

System Audit Log - Detailed Extract

Quarterly SOX compliance requires detail (Company, Account, Amount) found when clicking "show details" button for each modified form within System Audit Log for a given period. Currently manually opening each entry to verify amendments made by spe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Improve XML length/sizes determination

One of the frequent questions I receive from application teams, when dealing with XML data is : What is the max size of my xml documents in database ? What is the average size of them ? Today, Db2 has no easy answer for that.. the LENGTH() functio...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration

IDAA loader message HLOU5902S appearing in a Db2 utility running in batch address space.

Issue : DB2 utility running a check index all on a non-accelerated table(space) gave below messages HLOU5902S and HLOU5903W that appear misleading; when the accelerator loader should not be coming into picture here. The DSNUPROC for the DSNUTILB h...
8 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

RENAME function for tablespaces

the availability of the conversion of multi-table-tablespaces to UTS-PBG tablespaces is restricted to non-UTS tablespaces (source object). I would like to use this functionality to RENAME a tablespace (when the source is already a UTS-PBG TS) - bu...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Manta support for Informatica Cloud (IICS/IDMC)

AbbVie has many workflows using Informatica Cloud not Informatica Power Center. In order to see lineage across systems we need to be able to scan the lineage from Informatica Cloud as well. Informatica Power Center (IFPC) Manta connector is workin...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration